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ban | bawn |

As a proper noun ban

is .

As a noun bawn is

a cattle-fort; a building used to shelter cattle.

ban

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) bannen, from (etyl) . See also (l), (l).

Verb

  • (obsolete) To summon; call out.
  • To anathematise; pronounce an ecclesiastical curse upon; place under a ban.
  • To curse; execrate.
  • * (Spenser)
  • * (Sir Walter Scott)
  • To prohibit; interdict; proscribe; forbid or block from participation.
  • * (Byron)
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=December 14, author=Steven Morris, work=Guardian
    • , title= Devon woman jailed for 168 days for killing kitten in microwave , passage=Jailing her on Wednesday, magistrate Liz Clyne told Robins: "You have shown little remorse either for the death of the kitten or the trauma to your former friend Sarah Knutton." She was also banned from keeping animals for 10 years.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= A new prescription , passage=No sooner has a [synthetic] drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one. These “legal highs” are sold for the few months it takes the authorities to identify and ban them, and then the cycle begins again.}}
  • To curse; utter curses or maledictions.
    • Synonyms
    * forbid * prohibit * disallow

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • prohibition
  • * Milton
    • under ban to touch
  • A public proclamation or edict; a summons by public proclamation. Chiefly, in early use, a summons to arms.
    • Bans is common and ordinary amongst the Feudists, and signifies a proclamation, or any public notice.
  • The gathering of the (French) king's vassals for war; the whole body of vassals so assembled, or liable to be summoned; originally, the same as arrière-ban: in the 16th c., French usage created a distinction between ban and arrière-ban, for which see the latter word.
    • He has sent abroad to assemble his ban and arriere ban.
    The Ban and the Arrierban are met armed in the field to choose a king.
    ''France was at such a Pinch..that they call'd their Ban and Arriere Ban, the assembling whereof had been long discussed, and in a manner antiquated.
    The ban was sometimes convoked, that is, the possessors of the fiefs were called upon for military services.''
    The act of calling together the vassals in armed array, was entitled ‘convoking the ban.
  • (obsolete) A curse or anathema.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Hecate's ban
  • A pecuniary mulct or penalty laid upon a delinquent for offending against a ban, such as a mulct paid to a bishop by one guilty of sacrilege or other crimes.
    • Related terms
    * black ban * total fire ban

    See also

    * banns

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (bani)
  • A subdivision of currency, equal to a 1/100th of a Romanian (l)
  • A subdivision of currency, equal to a 1/100th of a Moldavian

    • Etymology 3

    From (Banburismus); coined by .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A unit measuring information or entropy based on base-ten logarithms, rather than the base-two logarithms that define the bit.
    • Derived terms
    * deciban
    Synonyms
    * dit, hartley
    See also
    * bit, nat, qubit

    Etymology 4

    From (etyl) (term) (compare Serbo-Croatian .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A title used in several states in central and south-eastern Europe between the 7th century and the 20th century.

    • Anagrams

    * * * English terms with multiple etymologies English transitive verbs ----

    bawn

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A cattle-fort; a building used to shelter cattle.
    • (Spenser)
  • * 1729', (editor), John Nichols (editor, revised edition), '''1812 , ''The British Classics, Volume 45'': ''The works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D.: Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, Volume XI , page 163:
    • The Grand Question Debated
    Whether Hamilton's Bawn Should be Turned into a Barrack or a Malt-house ? 1729
    This Hamilton's bawn , while it sticks in my hand, / I lose by the house what I get by the land; / But how to dispose of it to the best bidder, / For a barrack or malthouse, we now must consider.
  • * 1892 , :
    • When he was coming into the bawn at dinner-time, what work did he find Jack at but pulling armfuls of the thatch off the roof, and peeping into the holes he was making?
  • A defensive wall built around a tower house. It was once used to protect livestock during an attack.
  • * 2004', Colm J. Donnelly, ''Passage or Barrier? Communication between '''Bawn and Tower House in Late Medieval Ireland – the Evidence from County Limerick'', in ''Château Gaillard 21: Études de castellologie médiévale: La Basse-cour: Actes du colloque international de Maynooth (Irlande), 23-30 août 2002 , page 57:
    • The cattle, therefore, would be brought into the bawn' at night, as is stated by the early 17th-century writer Fynes Moryson who wrote that the Irish cattle “eat only by day, and then are brought at evening within the ' bawns of castles, where they stand or lie all night in a dirty yard without so much as a lock of hay.”

    Etymology 2

    Participle

    (head)
  • * 1894 , , Chapter 2: Driscoll Spares His Slaves:
    • "Bofe de same age, sir —five months. Bawn de fust o' Feb'uary."
  • * 1899 , :
    • But ef it has ter be prove' ter folks w'at wa'n't bawn en raise' in dis naberhood, dey is a' easy way ter prove it.
  • * 1900 , , Act I:
    • Yah! You oughter bin bawn a Christian, you ought. You knaow too mach.

    Anagrams

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